Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] he have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither my father nor the doctor knew the details of how he had escaped . |
| 2 | Frank sat down again and launched into a tale of how he had outwitted the guards at every turn and been the mainstay of the prisoners . |
| 3 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 4 | But the bulk of the programme was Mountbatten 's account of how he had done everything in his power , both professionally and privately , to dissuade his old friend , Anthony Eden , from attacking the Arabs . |
| 5 | Of how he had met , courted , wed Constance . |
| 6 | He was received by old Mrs Ferrar and Nicholas , to whom he spoke frankly of how he had heard of ‘ their watching and praying at night , of their altar richly decked with plate , tapestry and tapers , of their adoration and genuflections on entering therein , which might savour of superstition and popery ’ . |
| 7 | Her husband had been proud of how he had lived his life . |
| 8 | So when he fled in terror from the slopes of Ben Macdhui in the Cairngorms one day in 1891 , people were reluctant to dismiss his story of how he had crossed paths with the ghostly Big Grey Man — Am Fear Liath Mòr . |
| 9 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 10 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 11 | He is dead now , but I 've never forgotten his description of how he had felt as the German bombers came in from Norway , picking the scattered merchant ships off , the sound of the bombs , and the cold , always the cold . |
| 12 | While they reconnoitred the bar and found their seats ( on the aisle , so that , if his services as an understudy were required , Charles could be quickly extracted ) , he gave Frances a brief résumé of how he had lost his part . |
| 13 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 14 | Otto turned out to have measureless charm and the most courteous manner , and in slow , correct English told us of how he had perfected his tactics in Baltic exercises before the war , how he had put them into practice in the Atlantic , and how , on the night after his capture , he had played bridge in the day-cabin of Captain Macintyre with one of the ship 's lieutenants and the captains of two merchant ships he had sunk , and then slept ( for Captain Macintyre was in his sea-cabin ) in Captain Macintyre 's bunk . |
| 15 | And both , but most often my grandmother , would speak of her brother , Nethan ( Nathaniel ) ; of his good looks , of his skill as a musician , of how he had tried several times and failed to persuade my grandfather to enlist . |
| 16 | He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ? |
| 17 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 18 | With great relish he would recount the story of how he had surprised Branson one morning outside his house in Denbigh Terrace . |
| 19 | He spoke of how he had established the sex of the larger skeleton . |
| 20 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 21 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |
| 22 | I remembered my father 's story of how he 'd played in a game ‘ against the pick , the pick , of Catterick Camp ’ and won it singlehanded by tackling again and again a big winger from the Scots Guards . |
| 23 | we later heard the tale of how he 'd won |
| 24 | So if you wanted to look for example , at hesitations , and try to do an analysis of where he had hesitated and why he hesitated , who hesitates more than others . |
| 25 | In the end , if this crime turned out to be something more than an abortive mugging , he would have a portrait of the victim and through that portrait some indication of why he had become one . |
| 26 | Charlotte was in fact driving west along the M4 to South Wales , intent upon extracting from Frank Griffith some explanation of why he had misled Chief Inspector Golding . |
| 27 | Cabrera 's possible detection of a monopole last year aroused a great deal of excitement , but at the same time raised the question of why he had succeeded , where the many other experimental searches had failed . |
| 28 | It is one indication of why he has had such a unique influence on the history of mankind . |
| 29 | It reminded him of when he had guarded a colonial nursery , after an unexpected attack by Hunters had resulted in the abduction of two small infants . |
| 30 | Springsteen finished the mince and inspected his whiskers for any he 'd missed . |